In the year since euthanasia became legal, we have witnessed a powerful political push to normalize it as part of medicine in Canada. Yet many doctors remain opposed to the practice. Most would like to see it rigorously limited. And some, for reasons of personal and/or professional conscience, refuse categorically to be part of it.
Continue Reading → Conscience and Canadian doctors
Paul Adams, a Carleton University professor, said he and his wife should have been better informed about what to expect as she entered the final stage of cancer.
An opponent of euthanasia believes Canada's statistics on the subject should send a strong message to the United States.
Continue Reading → Advice: Let Canada be your example and warning
Considering the fact that Wettlaufer, the nurse who confessed to killing 8 people in Ontario, was not caught until she told a counselor what she had done, Canada’s self-reporting system raises a number of concerns.
A physician not willing to arrange the killing of a patient is now seen by some as causing harm. While that is debatable in our pluralistic society, what is clear is that the protection of the patient’s life has always been the foundation for the trust in the patient-physician relationship.
Continue Reading → We are a nation of laws and conscience